My previous camera, a Minolta DiMAGE 5, decided to retire. It made a few sputtering noises, then a loud *POP*, then it emitted the telltale ...

Kasey and her friend Callie wanted to enter the 4-H Christmas Cookie Competition so included my younger daughter, Korey, and we made a day o...

While I always enjoy compliments on my cakes and cookies, I've recently begun to get many compliments on may cake and cookie photography...

This is another version of the cake I fell in love with on www.pinkcakebox.com . You can click here to see the first one I did, which was a...

"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most." --- Matthew Arnold Yesterday, November...

My paternal grandfather, Harvey Dever, turned 93 on November 4th. We got together at his house the following Sunday to celebrate. Since he l...

A friend asked me to make her baby's baptism cake. She left the design up to me. I searched for ideas, but nothing really caught my eye....

Three more cakes in autumn and Halloween themes. First is Brook's Boo-lated Birthday Cake. We were going to Brook & Sam's annual...

This is another cake that I made for a coworker's birthday. Gum paste is a new medium for me, so I wanted to try something new. I used a...

This is my second attempt at covering a cake in fondant. My first attempt at making gumpaste roses. This is definitely going to take some pr...

The Black Pot Cook-off fundraiser was held at Angelle Park in Cecilia on October 4. Our friends, Brook and Sam, asked if we'd participa...

My friend and co-worker, Belit, asked me to bake a cake for her daughter Bella's first birthday. She gave me creative license and I knew...

This cake was baked for the son of my friend, Tally, to celebrate his 14th birthday. It's a six-layer, devil's food cake with bavari...

I baked this cake for the daughter of my friend and co-worker, Toni. She wanted a cake to match the party invitations. It's an 11" ...

I took these pictures on my birthday, September 8th. The sun was setting as storm clouds were building. I thought the scene was quite beauti...

My birthday was September 8th so of course I baked myself a birthday cake. I wanted to try something new and I definitely wanted buttercream...

My son, Nick, has decided that he wants to run a plant nursery. My paternal grandfather, Nick's great-grandfather had one, my dad's ...

After much preparation and anticipation, hurricane Gustav headed straight for us. Of course I made the usual preparations: cleaned house and...

This is a carrot cake that a friend ordered for her own birthday. It's a triple-layer carrot cake filled and frosted with cream cheese ...

I carry my camera with me everywhere . I enjoy taking pictures of my children and my confections. But I also find beauty and interest in the...

Recently I discovered Picnik , a free web-based application that lets you do cool things with pictures, without using PhotoShop. I found a F...

Today is my husband's birthday so I made a cake just for him. It's an 8-inch, three layer, french vanilla cake. One layer of banana ...

Cake baking and cookie making have been elevated to a new level! This mixer can handle anything you throw at it. And, I have to give kudos ...

Want to learn more about someone? Try to teach them something. My girlfriend Sandi was telling me about a baby shower she was going to host....

Our friends were celebrating their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. They had already ordered a small scale replica of the original wed...

My friend, Toni, loves carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, especially when I make the cake and frosting from scratch using a recipe from...

I tried two new recipes. I wanted a tastier sugar cookie so I tried the recipe found in The Flour Pot Cookie Book by Margie Greenberg . And,...

After two months of research, I finally felt confident enough to try my hand at decorating sugar cookies. I owe a big Thank You to CakeCentr...